Josh Rosen Quotes

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

Sometimes it takes a few years to land that special player.

Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

It's never easy to find players in the market who are exactly what you need at that time.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

Whenever you name a team and whenever you pick a squad, that is when you have to make the most difficult calls. To tell a player, 'I'm not selecting you, and these are the reasons why...' it's tough.

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

We have to talk about the players we have.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

So many guys come onto the scene who aren't supposed to be there. You pull for one, and then you see there's another and another and another, and you start to say, 'Who cares where a player was drafted? He can play football, and he can play at this level.'

I just want to go to the right team. The team that wants me. The team that believes in my potential.